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league. The broom factory team now leads by a scant margin of four games over the team from the tan nery, chiefly by reason of the prowess of-one "Red" Connors, who is the Walter Johnson of the prison and whose victories are more numerous than hfs aliases and that is going some. "Red" is doing a short "bit" for taking money from the wrong pocket another man's and when he gets out he says he's going to change his name and try to connect with some professional team. The baseball diamond is laid out inside the walls and one hour each day is devoted to the sport Convicts who are not baseball fans- are per mitted spend the time wrestling or boxing. There is nothing to curb the rooting of the fans but the high walls and a rigid rule against profanity, and when two teams meet the com ments of the convict fans can be heard for several blocks. Warden Allen umpires most of .the games himself. He is probably the least disputed umpire in the world. When he is too busy to do the umpir ing Warden Allen assigns a deputy or guard to hold the indicator. A new diamond is being constructed outside the walls for the "trusties." Warden Allen also has adopted the policy of spending so much time ev ery day going about the prison 'shops and factories where he mingles with the men. The convicts have come to look upon him as a friend and adviser and if they feel they "have a grouch or a kick" regardirig their life in the prison he courts criticism from them direct "We are not conducting a pleasure resort here, by any manner of means," said the warden today. "Jo liet prison is a place where men are incarcerated as punishment for primes against society. With the pun ishment we strive to mete out to every man confined here a modicum of human kindness arid, if possible, turn nim away from the pit into which he has fallen and start him right. We. are' not forgetting for a minute that these men are human Ibeings. We ""treat them as such." o o TAKING NO CHANCE "Why don't you make that feller pull out attle? I don't seerany sense in giving him all .the road."r "Don't you? Well, 'that feller's teamin' f er th' 'dynamite factory." o--o PROPERLY REARED X jmi Uncle Well, you ydung rascal, how many thrashings have you had at school today? fl Nephew I can't Temember, Uncle. I never trouble about what goes on behhid.my back. - .HK. . . ' JW5&imm&-&diSai:,J J&u&&- , iy'j. a iB$h& i NE t'jU J